Defence & total defence · Sweden, NATO, Ukraine

Where new technology enlists.

We empower companies entering the defence and total defence markets, and the investors who back them.

Nordic by origin. Global in mission.™

Why it matters

The technology Europe needs is already outside the gates.

Europe is rearming at a pace not seen since the Cold War, and Sweden, now a NATO ally, is in its largest build-up since the 1950s. Much of what the Alliance needs already exists, in companies that have never sold to defence and startups that are only getting started. Procurement systems across Europe were built to buy large platforms from a few established suppliers. New technology needs its own way in.

Suppliers invest when orders are firm. The state orders when the technology is proven. Both are acting rationally, and when someone carries the risk in between, both can move.

Companies

Bring products that already work. Most enter as a sub-supplier, and supplier relationships here last for decades, so the right first contract pays off for a long time.

Authorities

Know the capability they need, and get it faster when they work closely with the companies that can deliver it.

End users

See the problem first. When their feedback reaches the people building the solution, the next version is better.

Investors

Have the capital, and can back companies with confidence once the route to a contract is visible.

Ukraine shows what happens when the state takes risk off the small firm and the individual and carries it itself. Sweden and its allies can do the same in peacetime by placing risk where someone can carry it. We start in the Nordics and work across the Alliance, finding technology outside the gates and helping it enlist.